Many (most) conference fill in the keynote slots with regular faces as keynote speakers. As an organizer, who is a speaker and a starting keynoter, Maaret Pyhäjärvi is driving a new style for one of the European Testing Conference 2017 keynotes.
We have invited three of our four keynotes, and the fourth one is now open for a call to keynote for European Testing Conference 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on Feb 8.-10th 2017.
There are people out there who know they would do great on a keynote. They are strong presenters with experience, and a message that needs to get heard. As conference organizers, we can't know who they are, and without a public call, we will choose only amongst people we know of.
This is a conference on testing as developers and testers and business analysts know it. Your talk could be anything you think is appropriate for this mixed audience with interest in testing.
For selection, the final call is on the organizers. To work on our understanding, however, we team up with our advisors to ask for their perceptions.
In this call, we ask you to announce yourself and your topic(s), provide a video reference if you have one of you speaking. If your don't have one, you can either create one or do a sample piece with us over Skype.
You have until end of June to let us know of your existence, we select the keynoter in July.
If you feel like coaching would help you with final delivery, don't let that stop you. There's people we can direct you to for help.
What we offer:
We'd love to see a new keynoting voice emerge!
We have invited three of our four keynotes, and the fourth one is now open for a call to keynote for European Testing Conference 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on Feb 8.-10th 2017.
There are people out there who know they would do great on a keynote. They are strong presenters with experience, and a message that needs to get heard. As conference organizers, we can't know who they are, and without a public call, we will choose only amongst people we know of.
This is a conference on testing as developers and testers and business analysts know it. Your talk could be anything you think is appropriate for this mixed audience with interest in testing.
For selection, the final call is on the organizers. To work on our understanding, however, we team up with our advisors to ask for their perceptions.
In this call, we ask you to announce yourself and your topic(s), provide a video reference if you have one of you speaking. If your don't have one, you can either create one or do a sample piece with us over Skype.
You have until end of June to let us know of your existence, we select the keynoter in July.
If you feel like coaching would help you with final delivery, don't let that stop you. There's people we can direct you to for help.
What we offer:
- We pay travel + stay for all our speakers for three nights. Conference entry is free. And we have a speaker's dinner on Feb 8th 2017, just before the conference.
- Keynoters get 5 shares into our speaker profit sharing model. In 2016 it meant being paid 800 euros.
- Keynoters get to amp up their income by delivering a one-day training where half of the profit is theirs (that is on Feb 8th)
What we require:
- You want to stay for the whole conference and not just show up to deliver a talk
We'd love to see a new keynoting voice emerge!
Call for Keynotes is here.
Added note: this is not a women-only call but a new keynoters building up their reputation call. Gender is not a selection criteria in any way here.
